"HYMN OF HATE."
A PAINFUL MEMORY FOR AUTHOR.
Herr Ernst Lissauer, author of the war-timo "Hymn of Hate" against England, has again explained how this poem came to be written and his present attitude regarding it. He declares that he wrote it "in good faith," inspired by the utterance of English politicians and newspapers that England desired to strangle the German nation. He says:— "I realise to-day that it would have been better to have expressed my anxiety in a song of love to Germany than in the negative form of a song of hate against England. It is painful to me that my name is now allied with the ideas of death and destruction." The following is an extract from the "Hymn of Hate": — Hate by water and hate by land, Hate Of the head and hate of the hand, Hate of the hammer and hate of the crown, Hate of seventy millions, choking down. We love as one, we hate as one, We have one foe, and one alone — England!
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 257, 30 October 1929, Page 14
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